. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. SlIKnlSllIRI. J. T. , llriklLUu|istfMl Hampmiiki: Diiwn RamPlioto J. T. Newman, lierkhanipstead washing day is kept as a fete day, on whichthe inhabitants take baths that are not merelyexternal. The manure of the sheep is left for a wholeyear to pile up in the sheepcots, where itforms the litter of the animals. It is onlytaken out once a \ear, in thespring. As the moorlandsheep are especially useful fortheir manure, the territorythey occupy is slowly butsurely diminishing, since amore intelligent system offa
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. SlIKnlSllIRI. J. T. , llriklLUu|istfMl Hampmiiki: Diiwn RamPlioto J. T. Newman, lierkhanipstead washing day is kept as a fete day, on whichthe inhabitants take baths that are not merelyexternal. The manure of the sheep is left for a wholeyear to pile up in the sheepcots, where itforms the litter of the animals. It is onlytaken out once a \ear, in thespring. As the moorlandsheep are especially useful fortheir manure, the territorythey occupy is slowly butsurely diminishing, since amore intelligent system offarming is developing, andartificial fertilizers are foundto work as well as sheepmanure. V. FORBUTCHEKINC English shee]) are in directopposition to moorland sheepin their chief c|ualities, 174 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. A Rare Species of the Shropshire BreedPhoto J. T. Newman, Bevkhampstea d although, like them, they inhabit the plains andhillsides of a great part of Europe and is a great difference, however, in thecharacter of those plains ; the moorland sheep live on sandy soil, while theEnglish-bred sheep are theproduct of a rich, loamy,calcareous land. England isespecially fitted for the forma-tion of such a race, partly byreason of its soft and temper-ate climate, and partly becauseof its many beautiful and fer-tile meadows and the rollingdowns of the south andeast; and also, and above all,by reason of the practical goodsense that characterizes theEnglishman in general and theEnglish breeder in history of these sheepdoes not date back very was not until the secondhalf of the eighteenth centurythat their excellent qualities came to be gener-ally known, thanks to a breeder named Bake-well, who died in 1799. Bakewell lived inLeicestershire, where the soil and cli
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